This last month has seen some extraordinary developments in the arrival at WVFFM of this rod:

The rod has been posted on The Classic Fly Rod Forum and has been the subject of mush exciting discussion. Is it by Wm. Mitchell & Son, a late C19 New York maker? Is it British made with heavy American influence? Is it American, made for the British market? It may never be possible to know for sure, but the discussion has prompted me to explore another chapter of "The Transatlantic Connection" and to make more effort to present the British made rods in WVFM, so much to do in the coming months, although the Brown Trout season opens here in Scotland in two weeks.....